alphonse
\al.fɔ̃s\
The verdict
“alphonse” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,166
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme qui vit de la prostitution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alphonse · alphonse · French
alphonse · rank #11,166 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,166
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amants
Nearest frequency peer: amants (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « alphonse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- achetée
achetée
88,838 corpus weight
- aimons
aimons
88,837 corpus weight
- alphonse
alphonse
88,835 corpus weight
- amants
amants
88,834 corpus weight
- anatomie
anatomie
88,833 corpus weight
- anglaises
anglaises
88,832 corpus weight
What this shows « alphonse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alphonse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.fɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alphonse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around alphonse (IPA \al.fɔ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,166 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for alphonse, with forms such as "alhponse", "allphonse", and "alphhonse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is alphonse, spelled A-L-P-H-O-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Homme qui vit de la prostitution.
- 2Homme entretenu par sa maîtresse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alphonse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plus souvent, ce n’est qu’un simple Alphonse qui, bien loin de pouvoir lui venir en aide, la maintient dans l’abîme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alhponse
- allphonse
- alphhonse
- alphnose
- alphones
- alphonnse
- alphonsse
- alphosne
- alpohnse
- alpphonse
- aplhonse
- laphonse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alphonse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).